English Explanatory Dictionary

voice

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Sound uttered by the mouth, especially by human beings in speech or song; sound thus uttered considered as possessing some special quality or character.
  2. Sound made through vibration of the vocal cords; sonant, or intonated, utterance; tone; — distinguished from mere breath sound as heard in whispering and voiceless consonants.
  3. The tone or sound emitted by an object.
  4. The faculty or power of utterance.
  5. That which is communicated; message; meaning.
  6. An expressed opinion, choice, will, desire, or wish; the right or ability to make such expression or to have it considered.
  7. Command; precept.
  8. One who speaks; a speaker.
  9. A particular style or way of writing that expresses a certain tone or feeling.
  10. A particular way of inflecting or conjugating verbs, or a particular form of a verb, which indicates the relation of the subject of the verb to the action which the verb expresses.
  11. In harmony, an independent vocal or instrumental part in a piece of composition.
  12. A flag associated with a user on a channel, determining whether they can send messages to the channel.
verb
  1. To give utterance or expression to; to utter; to publish; to announce
  2. To utter audibly, with tone and not just breath.
  3. To fit for producing the proper sounds; to regulate the tone of
  4. To vote; to elect; to appoint
  5. To clamor; to cry out
  6. To assign the voice flag to a user on IRC, permitting them to send messages to the channel.
  7. To act as a voice actor to portray a character.
name
  1. The Indigenous Voice to Parliament proposal

Pronunciation

/vɔɪs/ en-us-voice.ogg /vɔjs/ /vɑjs/

Word forms

voice voices voyce voicing voiced the Voice

Etymology

From Middle English voice, voys, vois, borrowed from Anglo-Norman voiz, voys, voice, Old French vois, voiz (Modern French voix), from Latin vōcem, accusative form of vōx (“voice”), from Proto-Indo-European *wṓkʷs, root noun from *wekʷ- (“to utter, speak”). Cognate with Sanskrit वाच् (vāc), Ancient Greek ὄψ (óps), Persian آواز (âvâz). Displaced native Middle English steven (“voice”) (from Old English stefn (see steven)), Old English hlēoþor, Old English woþ, and Old English reord. Compare advocate, advowson, avouch, convoke, vocal, vouch, vowel. Doublet of vox.

Synonyms

steven reard vote say-so diathesis gender grammatical voice verbal voice

Related words

vocable vocabulary vocal vocalization vocalize vocation

Derived words

at the top of one's voice chest voice chipmunk voice cockpit voice recorder creaky voice Dalek voice devoice find one's voice give voice good voice to beg bacon head voice indoors voice indoor voice in good voice inner voice in one voice inside voice in voice keep one's voice down library voice like the sound of one's own voice morning voice non-voice outdoors voice outdoor voice outside voice pick-by-voice pick-to-voice raise one's voice sexy baby voice singing voice speaking voice storm-voice student voice the voice of the people, the voice of God throw one's voice tone of voice undervoice voice-act voice acting voice-activated voice actor voice actress voice artist voice assistant voicebank voice blindness voice box voice call voice calling in the wilderness voice changer voice coil voice command voice crack voice crying in the wilderness voiced voice-directed warehousing voice evac voice evacuation voice for print

Translations

Bulgarian: озвучава Danish: udtale stemt Esperanto: voĉi Finnish: puhua Finnish: puhua ääneen French: proclamer Hungarian: zöngésít Hungarian: zöngével/zöngésen ejt Japanese: 声をあげる Macedonian: озвучува Portuguese: vocalizar Spanish: sonorizar Swedish: tala
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